Nikos Androuliakis: Confidence in the People That Government Works as a Corruption Machine

In high tons the president of PASOK attacked the government by speaking in the motion of disbelief, which his party tabled. Nikos Androulakis said that “it is now a firmly established belief in the Greek people that your government operates as a well-saturated machine of corruption, cover-up and propaganda. This is the final state, a spoil state that its priority is not the public interest but the perpetuation of the power of the NW.” He stressed that the PASOK-Movement of Change, refuses to accept the continuous pattern of Corruption, Coverage, and Punishment in a number of morbid cases. PASOK-KINAL’s president launched a personal attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying: “ Mr. Mitsotakis, don’t be confused. At the Maximus Palace you’re just a tenant. The only owner is the Greek people. So, as he put you, he’ll get you out. And as you go it will be sooner than you have planned.” “Bratakos and Papastavrou were drinking drinks with those you denounced” He dismissed the government’s accusations of how he filed the motion of disbelief to serve financial interests the president of PASOK-KINAL stressed: “Interference with what media and what economic interests? The things you reported this morning that two of your closest associates, Mr. Papastavrou and Mr. Bratakos, wanted to destabilize you and two of your closest associates in the evening? Did you finally send them to smoke cigars, Mr. Mitsotakis or the pipe of peace?” Commenting on the resignations of the two ministers, Nikos Androulakis argued that “the core of conflict and corruption is at Maximos Mansion”. “You were playing with the chances of a tragedy” Androuliakis criticised the government’s manipulations not to be attributed responsibilities for the Tembes tragedy by observing how “as long as there were no security systems that would prevent any mistake, you were playing with the odds of a tragedy,” stressed PASOK-KINAL president, while on the occasion of the recent publication of the Step said that “some morbid minds had another priority: they put into practice the crime of manipulating public opinion before national elections.” He also appealed to the Daily report according to which “…from 8 a.m. on the same day, before the police and judicial authorities even received the talks, some had them in their possession, had processed them and had channeled them to your friendly media which published what you gave him.” He attributed to the government an attempt to mislead the Greek people and asked for answers to the questions: “Who got the talks? Who knocked them out? Who gave them to the First Issue to publish them? You will not hide the truth behind your vulgar propaganda. This revelation confirms the established belief of the Greek people that your only goal is to manipulate public opinion. Get it figured out. You cannot convince Greek society that nothing is going on, that “slowly the issue”, which a corrupt hand the night that all Greece was mourning, took the talks, bronzed them and gave them to the First Issue. We want to know what this dangerous and ruthless hand is. Who gave the order at 4 a.m. to enter the OSE, pick up the talks and pass them at 8 a.m. emails of senior agency officials.” “Costas Karamanlis had the nerve to appear as prosecutor” He commented causticly on Kostas Karamanlis’ speech yesterday saying that he had the nerve to appear as a prosecutor.: “…the offence of infidelity means corruption, Mr Karamanlis. Your last night’s warm applause to the man who was saying “ashamed” to those who question train safety, just days before the tragedy shows that you have zero empathy. You insult Greek society with your behavior. But he did not say a word about the Transparency Authority’s finding. He refuted the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’s finding, identifying responsibilities to him and Mr. Spirtzis. He fully ignored the finding of experts the government itself appointed and which stresses the failure to implement Convention 717 as one of the main reasons for the conflict. He said nothing about the “blue rusfeti” of the illegal transfer of the fatal stationmaster. This is the “blue meritocracy”, which you have also made a flag”! “Mitsotakis and Kerameos must answer for the case of Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou” Drimia was his criticism for emails to the Apommunians by Ms Asimakopoulou. “This is a scandalous method for which the Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Mrs Kerameos, must answer,” the President of PASOK, stressed. He also said the interceptions come to complement the puzzle of irresponsibility, corruption and impunity and added: ” Even today you have not given convincing answers, but you have neither allowed the investigation to be carried out. The exam on interceptions was the rehearsal for what happened in the Tempe exam. The main protagonists have not yet been called by justice, nor has an identification been made to see if the phones targeted with Predator were also under surveillance by the NSA. And to understand: interceptions were not a scandal of human rights violations. But a heavy financial one. Some made millions exposing the country internationally.” “What I have to tell you in closing is that there is no stability without justice. Without justice citizens’ confidence in democracy, institutions and politics is lost. And there is no trust without honesty and responsibility. The stability you hypocritically invoke does not come by putting the problems under the carpet. We will not be shaken by your characterizations, by the background war and character killings, we will do everything we can to prevent the arrogance and impunity of the New Democracy government,” Nikos Androulakis concluded.